Simple past

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Biography
Regular and irregular verbs
VERB +
ed
vs.
A: You called Mariana.
N: You did not call Mariana.
Q: Did you call Mariana?
Irregular
verb
A: He ate pizza and fries.
N: He did not eat pizza and fries.
Q: Did he eat pizza and fries?
Use the Simple Past
to express the idea
that an action
started and finished
at a specific time in
the past.
Examples:
I saw a movie yesterday.
I didn't see a play yesterday.
Last year, I traveled to Japan.
Last year, I didn't travel to Korea.
Did you have dinner last night?
She washed her car.
He didn't wash his car.

We use the Simple
Past to list a series
of completed
actions in the past.
These actions
happen 1st, 2nd,
3rd, 4th, and so on.
Examples:
I finished work, walked to the
beach, and found a nice place to
swim.
He arrived from the airport at
8:00, checked into the hotel at
9:00, and met the others at 10:00.
Did you add flour, pour in the
milk, and then add the eggs?

It can be used with a
duration which starts
and stops in the past. A
duration is a longer
action often indicated
by expressions such as:
for two years, for five
minutes, all day, all
year, etc.
Examples:
I lived in Brazil for two years.
Shauna studied Japanese for five
years.
They sat at the beach all day.
They did not stay at the party the
entire time.
We talked on the phone for thirty
minutes.

The news
News is the communication of selected

information on current events. It is shared in
various ways: among individuals and small
groups (such as by word of
mouth or newsletters); with wider audiences
(such as by publishing, either in print or online,
or broadcasting, such as ontelevision or radio);
or in ways that blend those traits (such as
when social media sharing starts among
individuals but goes viral).
headline
column
edition
reporter
local
newspaper
columnist
editor
report
robbery
anchorman
advertisement
writer
channel

News vocabulary
thief
article
journalism
station
criminal

event
author
journalist
viewer
crime

News vocabulary
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A biography or simply bio is a
detailed description or account of a
person's life. It entails more than
basic facts like education, work,
relationships, and deatha
biography also portrays a subject's
experience of these events.

J.K. Rowling
Joanne Rowling (July 31, 1965), pronounced
like rolling, is the well renowned British author of the
Harry Potter book series. Story has it that she
conceived the idea for the series while on a delayed
train traveling from Manchester to London. The
Harry Potter series has gained worldwide attention
and critical acclaim, and has even been made into a
film series by the production house Warner Bros.
When publishing her first bookHarry Potter and the
Philosophers Stone, Rowlings publishers were
concerned that young male readers would not read a
woman author and urged her to simply use her initial
J. The book was eventually published under the pen
name J.K. Rowling because the K made it sound
better.
J.K. Rowling
Joanne was born to Peter James and Anne Rowling in
Gloucester, England. From an early age, she was fond
of making up stories that she narrated to her sister and
grandmother. She attended St. Michaels Primary
school whose headmaster at the time, Alfred Dunn, is
said to be the basis for the character Albus
Dumbledore in her books. Rowling claims that the
precocious character Hermione Granger is moulded
after herself and her formative years at Wyedean
College and that her old school friend Sean Harris, who
owned a turquoise Ford Anglia like in the book, is the
basis for the character Ron Weasley.
J.K. Rowling
After graduating with a degree in French and
Classics from the University of Exeter, Rowling
moved to London to work as a bilingual research
assistant for Amnesty International. Although she
began work on the Harry Potter series in 1990
the first book wasnt published until 1997. During
the years in between Rowling worked as an
English teacher in Portugal where she married
the father of her child. After her marriage ended,
Rowling moved to Scotland where she decided to
spend all her energy writing the first Harry Potter
book.
J.K. Rowling
Because of her humble background, J.K Rowling is
committed to the alleviation of poverty. She
founded the Childrens High Level group and to
raise money for the organisation she auctioned
one of seven illustrated hand-written books
called Tales of Beedle the Bard, a series of fantasy
books referred to in the last installment of the
Harry Potter series. Also, Rowlings mother Anne
suffered from complications related to multiple
sclerosis, which is why she has donated large
sums of money towards the creation of a Center
for Regenerative Medicine at Edinburgh
University.